UK MPs call for Iran Revolutionary Guard to be proscribed terrorist organisation

Following the recent protests in Iran, the UK Home Secretary is facing calls to designate Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organisation. On 31 October 2017, 69 British MPs backed a motion to express serious concerns over the group’s role in “human rights violations in Iran and support for terrorism abroad”, and calling on the Government to include IRGC...